Education & Stewardship: Notes From the Field
What We're Learning on the Land, in Santa Cruz and the greater South Bay
Stewardship is a practice, and practices are meant to be shared. This journal gathers what our crews are seeing and learning across the orchards, gardens, and landscapes we tend: seasonal know-how, growing wisdom for this coast, and the occasional dispatch from a project we loved. For our library of evergreen growing references, visit our Cultivation Guides.
Why Native Plantings Installation in Santa Cruz, CA Belongs in the Rainy Season
October is the month a native plantings installation in Santa Cruz, CA stops being a spring project and becomes an autumn one, and the reason sits in the weather rather than in the planting plan.
California natives evolved around a wet winter and a dry summer. Planting them on that cycle rather than against it is most of what determines how much irrigation they need in their first three years.